FRANCE: Again, Barbusse

At Paris Novelist Henri Barbusse, winner of the Prix Goncourt with his
pen and the Croix de Guerre with his sword, occupies a position unique
and anomalous. He is always bringing some unpleasant fact to light,
and his genius is always just sufficient to make the expose
nauseatingly unforgettable. With such a man what is to be done? He
was among the first to turn up to view the festering underside of Glory
in his War novel Le Feu (Under